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Also Known As Georg Joachim Von Lauchen • Georg Joachim De Porris • Georg Joachim Rhetikus • Georg Joachim Rhäticus
Born February 16, 1514 • Feldkirch • Austria
Died December 5, 1576 (aged 62) • Košice • Slovakia
Notable Works “De libris revolutionum…Nic. Copernici…narratio prima…” • “Opus Palatinum de triangulis”
Subjects Of Study Copernican system
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Regiomontanus
German mathematician
Georg von Peuerbach
Austrian mathematician
August Ferdinand Möbius, detail from an engraving by an unknown artist.
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Wilhelm Schickard
German astronomer, mathematician, and cartographer
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish astronomer
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician

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